Quotes About Alienation

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Having unlimited texting...With nobody to text....

Those days when you wake up in the morning and suddenly hate everyone.

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

When I'd woken the next morning, I'd done so in a dislocated world of dimmed daylight and diluted colors, a sodden world, feeling like I was a castaway on an alien planet.

The sense of alienation that inspires wonder, awe and fear in us is enough of a proof that life does not belong to the planet Earth.

The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about repression and internal angst.

The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

When you get locked up, you get locked out.

I'm perpetually lonely.

I didn't fit in at school, and I didn't fit in at home, and I didn't know why. I was often lonely.

I was a high-school dropout; I was a loner.

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

Whiteness, maleness and heterosexuality are now viewed as pathological, as forms of oppression. In this way, the left by design seeks to demonize white male heterosexuals and thus make a large body of Americans feel like aliens in their own country.

If the world is where we hide from ourselves, what do we do when the world is no longer accessible? We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mail.

We are not native. We have no generations of Americans behind us. We have roots elsewhere. We are looking in from the outside. To me, that seems to be perfectly natural.

Is he one of them now? Frustrated, stuck, self-watching, looking for a means of connection, a way to break out. After Oswald, men in America are no longer required to lead lives of quiet desperation. You apply for a credit card, buy a handgun, travel through cities, suburbs and shopping malls, anonymous, anonymous, looking for a chance to take a shot at the first puffy empty famous face, just to let people know there is someone out there who reads the papers.

lonely-chrome America.

She used to say to him, If people knew what I was thinking they would put me away forever. But they would put us all away, he said. They have put us away. we are put away for our thoughts, one way or another. We have put ourselves away, he said.

There were times when he felt the lure of a submoronic mode of being.

There's less and less for people to talk to when they talk to me. I hope diminishing existence isn't contagious.

I was living, in short, on the edge of a landscape of vast shame.